More Portland resources for learning to code: Portland Code School and Code Scouts

It’s no secret that it’s a good time to be a coder. Everyone with the semblance of an idea, an early stage startup, or a going concern is looking to hire talented developers. So that talent is in short supply. Very short supply.

But there is hope.

In fact, organizations are springing up left and right to help people tune up their coding chops—or to learn to code for the first time.

And as luck would have it, some of those groups are right here in Portland.

Designed as a 12-week full-time program, Portland Code School promises to arm participants with the knowledge they need to seek employment—or at least an internship—as a developer.

We envision The Portland Code School as the leading developer of the next generation of Portland programmers. Working in collaboration with Portland coder communities, we provide aspiring programmers with a jumping off point to dive into a web development career along with the skills and tools to engage in learning the advanced skills that distinguish great programmers from those that are merely good enough. We also network with leading edge tech companies seeking to hire skilled and well-rounded programmers, to ensure our students have the skills needed to be professionally competitive and successful.

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Published by Rick Turoczy

More than mildly obsessed with the Portland startup community. Founder and editor at Silicon Florist. Cofounder and general manager at PIE. Follow me on Twitter: @turoczy
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What’s (probably) missing is R, statistics and applied math. We have quite a collection of people here who are into that – there’s two generations of high-performance computing geeks like myself, plus an R programming user group, a data visualization user group *and* a “big data/data science/Hadoop” user group. Bottom line: if people want to learn this stuff, there are folks here willing to teach it.

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